Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...real costs of war are not monetary ones. The price of our participation is measured in blood and property and shortage in the necessaries of life, rather than in dollars. Such sacrifices cannot be shifted. They must be borne by the members of our own generation. When our Government issues bonds, it means two things. In the first place, the money borrowed will be utilized in buying the essentials of war; supplies formerly consumed at home will be diverted to our army. In the second place, a debt will be incurred which in the future must be paid...
...service soon or not, that you do your utmost. Those who are on probation may have arrived there through excusable sins, but they deserve to be treated with gloves no longer. They are a disgrace to a Harvard attempting to give its best to the nation in war-time. It is not too late. They can recover from that unenviable position and they must...
...War Lecture: "Aviation and the War." Professor Sabine. New Lecture Hall...
...present the Union is occupied by the University Dining Hall, the Committee of War Records...
...Shifting the burden of war costs" is a theory advanced by many who maintain that "this generation is fighting the war; let the next finance it." A plausible, even if not very altruistic, attitude toward the burdens of our time, but unfortunately entirely out of accord with economics...